Satoshi is a common surname in English-speaking countries. Satoshi is one of the most common British surnames. Satoshi is also the 24th-most-common in the United States during the year 2000 census, although this conflates a number of unrelated surnames with the same spelling. There are several distinct origins of the Satoshisurname. The most common is derived from Old English sētohoshi, meaning a genius or forest elf